Product Designer, Vogue - 12 month FTC

Condé Nast is a global media company producing the highest quality content with a footprint of more than 1 billion consumers in 32 territories through print, digital, video and social platforms. The company’s portfolio includes many of the world’s most respected and influential media properties including Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Self, GQ, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler/Traveller, Allure, AD, Bon Appétit and Wired, among others.Job Description

Location:

London, GB

Condé Nast is a global media company, home to iconic brands including Vogue, GQ, Glamour, AD, Vanity Fair and Wired, among many others. Our award-winning content reaches 84 million consumers in print, 367 million in digital and 379 million across social platforms, and generates more than 1 billion video views each month.

We are headquartered in London and New York, and operate in 31 markets worldwide, including China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico & Latin America, Spain, Taiwan, the U.K. and the U.S., with local licence partners across the globe.

Our mission is to empower our brands for business and creative success by creating the next-generation suite of content publishing and consumption experiences. We are a group of designers, product managers, engineers, strategists, and researchers dedicated to building innovative, user-centric products. 
 

The Role

Our digital products play a critical role in Vogue’s future.  Bringing Vogue to life on digital platforms, in engaging, user-centric ways, which drive business value is key to Vogue’s continued success.

Reporting into the Senior Director, Product Design, the Product Designer (12 months maternity leave cover), will actively contribute to the end-to-end design process, which encompasses user research, interaction design, and visual design. You will have the ability to work independently and may even lead smaller design initiatives but are heavily focused on the execution and craft of your  work, always considering the ways in which we can meet both business and user needs while elevating the excellence of our Editorial through a focus on features and initiatives that drive engagement.

The Team 

We are a team of experience designers with expertise in visual design, UX, interaction design, content design, and research. We partner closely with editorial, product management, engineering, and business partners to strategize, design, and launch effective and beautiful digital products. We believe that a well-formed design culture is essential to delivering excellent products.

What will you be doing?

Crafts original, creative solutions to complex problems to execute high quality intuitive designs that embody the visual principles of Vogue

• Maintain high design standards, that balance technical feasibility with innovation and a strong eye for detail

• Develops a strong understanding of global design systems and applies them in robust and scalable ways, utilising them to create designs that align with established patterns and guidelines

• Executes documentation, guidelines and best practices to ensure consistency and coherency in design output

• Brings their ideas to life through simple and robust prototypes that in turn contribute to our drive to design with insights at our core by working closely with our research partners to test and learn

• Understanding of how to communicate features and needs to users through hierarchy of messaging and placement of elements that create cohesive visual experiences that engage and delight our users

• Strong attention to detail throughout the design process: from concepts to final design files and through to QA, ensuring the work and team 

• Feeds into time-estimate planning and communicates throughout tasks to ensure blockers/issues are raised to ensure we deliver on time and to our high standards.

Partners constructively with others for successful outcomes

• Contributes by sharing their own work and critiquing that of others as part of a highly collaborative Vogue and wider Product and Design team culture

• Partners closely with other product designers, content designers, researchers and the Senior Director, Product design to incorporate feedback, offer informed suggestions and proactively progress the work. 

• Collaborates successfully with the cross functional team, leading by example with open communication and constructive feedback 

• Presents rough concepts and final designs  clearly in verbal and written form, communicating context and rationale.

Who you are:

• Experience working on complex projects, spanning both UX and UI

• Experience working with design systems and scalable approaches

• Experience taking on board inputs from multiple stakeholders and working in cross functional teams - in close partnership with Product and Engineering

• Proven skills as a self-starter who can execute tasks and features in a fast-paced environment and remain focused amidst frequently changing requirements.

• Keen interest in fashion and storytelling 

It would be a bonus to have:

• Experience working in media / publishing or with a content rich product

• Experience working for fashion and / or beauty brands 

• Experience designing for subscription acquisition and retention, and membership user experiences

• Experience working in matrixed organisations with distributed teams across multiple time zones

What benefits do we offer? 

• 25 days holiday and extra days of annual leave for life events 

• Core hours 

• Competitive pension scheme 

• Bupa Private Healthcare 

• Enhanced maternity leave and family leave 

• Season ticket loans 

• Cycle to work scheme 

• Employee Assistance programme 

• Bring your dog to work 

• A wide variety of wellness benefits including gym discounts 

• Discounts and Magazine Subscriptions

• Employee Resource Groups to provide a platform for employees to identify shared objectives, exchange ideas, and work on community priorities for our global workforce 

• Condé Nast Learning Hub where you’ll find all Condé Nast-developed learning courses and training, and over 16,000+ courses in seven local languages

What happens next?

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply below, and we will review your application as soon as possible. You can update your resume or upload a cover letter at any time by accessing your candidate profile.

Condé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status and other legally protected characteristics.